This original print is the work of Thomas Andrew, a New Zealand photographer who settled in the Samoan Islands at the end of the 19th century.
It shows a little girl sitting on a traditional tapa in [...]
Our two photographs show Tahitian couples in traditional dress, immortalized in scenes of daily life.
One of the images is dated 1896 in graphite.
This year, the printing technique, its format and i[...]
An important set of twenty-six albumin photographs, formerly mounted on blue card.
Our collection retraces a journey to Tungusic country, on the borders of China and Eastern Siberia, in the late 19t[...]
Portrait of a young girl with her hand placed on her mother's shoulder, South Africa.
The albumen print is mounted on a carte de visite with the label of the studio Crewes & Sons.
Charles F. Crewe[...]
Rare and moving albumen print showing a young woman standing in the studio. She carries her fiber hammock on her head.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in[...]
Rare and moving albumen print featuring a group of four men in the studio.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, allows us to locate our photograph [...]
Large and rare albumen print showing a young woman in the studio, seated on a rock.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, allows us to locate our ph[...]
WOODEN STEREOSCOPE XIX th Nice stereoscope in walnut magnifying glass for stereoscopic views on glass or cardboard, size: 8.5 x 17.5 cm. Adjustment for sharpness, the eyepieces are made of metal (smal[...]
Large vintage albumen print showing three young Indonesian girls in the reconstituted Javanese Kampong in the heart of Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. These three traditional dancers were [...]
Large vintage albumen print showing a group of six Indonesian women in the Javanese Kampong reconstituted in the middle of Paris for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
In the foreground, richly dressed, [...]
Large albumen print showing a scene of daily life in a Kanak village, New Caledonia. The men are armed with their traditional spears and clubs, the women are busy with domestic chores.
This photograp[...]
Large albumen print showing a group of children posing in front of an entrance to the temple of Medinet-Habou, the largest of all Egyptian funerary temples.
This photograph is the work of Gabriel Le[...]
Albumen print named "Kafir Corn" presenting a group of children in the fields, province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Vintage print circa 1880, by the photographer William Henry Caney, known as [...]
Rare albumen print of a Zulu woman posing seated in the studio and offering a beautiful documentation of traditional South African adornments.
Vintage print circa 1880, attributed to the photographer[...]
Ashanti warrior from Ghana.
Albumen print mounted on cardboard. An ink stamp on the back "Jardin Zoologique d'Acclimatation. Secretariat. September 6, 1887. Paris".
Between 1877 and 1937, millions o[...]
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